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SACRAMENTO -- State Sen. Ed Hernandez (D-West Covina) portrayed Monday the shelving of his amendment to overturn the state's ban on affirmative action in higher education as an attempt to defuse the increasingly heated backlash the proposal has generated in recent weeks. "Given the scare tactics and misinformation used by certain groups opposed to SCA 5, we felt it was necessary to have a discussion based on facts and take the time to hear from experts on the challenges our public universities and colleges face with regards to diversity, as well as the implications for California's workforce and our overall competitiveness in a global economy," Hernandez told reporters at the Capitol.

SACRAMENTO -- State Sen. Ed Hernandez (D-West Covina) portrayed Monday the shelving of his amendment to overturn the state's ban on affirmative action in higher education as an attempt to defuse the increasingly heated backlash the proposal has generated in recent weeks. "Given the scare tactics and misinformation used by certain groups opposed to SCA 5, we felt it was necessary to have a discussion based on facts and take the time to hear from experts on the challenges our public universities and colleges face with regards to diversity, as well as the implications for California's workforce and our overall competitiveness in a global economy," Hernandez told reporters at the Capitol.

It was exactly the kind of predicament you would expect a 22-year-old pitching his first World Series game to melt in, but for this Florida Marlin rookie, it provided a chance to carve another plank in the Livan-Hernandez-for-Savior campaign.

Mohammad Qasim Fahim Influential Afghan vice president Influential Afghan Vice President Mohammad Qasim Fahim, 57, a leading commander in the alliance that fought the Taliban who was later accused with other warlords of targeting civilian areas during the country's civil war, died Sunday of natural causes in Kabul. He had diabetes and other ailments. Fahim was an ethnic Tajik who was the top deputy of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the charismatic Northern Alliance commander who was killed in an Al Qaeda suicide bombing two days before the Sept.

Say this much for Padre pitcher Jimmy Jones in his tiff with Keith Hernandez Tuesday night. He tried. He pitched him inside on the knuckles. He pitched him out past the fingertips. The New York Met first baseman was so impressed that in his first two at-bats, he singled and doubled and drove in a run. Finally, in the fifth inning, Jones dispensed with ceremony. He stuck his knee in the side of the man's head. Left him face down in the first-base-line chalk. Knocked him out. Didn't work.

Jack Kerouac's encounter with a "Mexican girl" he calls Teresa, or Terry, takes up about 20 pages of his classic 1957 novel "On the Road. " He's at a bus station in Bakersfield when he first catches a glimpse of Terry, "the cutest little Mexican girl in slacks," with hair that was "long and lustrous black" and eyes that were "great big blue things with timidities inside. " Kerouac ends up spending two weeks with her. The point of the young writer's life is to keep moving, and when Kerouac takes one last look at Terry as he leaves California on his way back to New York, he knows he'll never see her again.

The Transportation Security Administration agent who was killed at Los Angeles International Airport died within two to five minutes of being shot, coroner's officials said. Gerardo I. Hernandez, a 39-year-old father of two, was shot multiple times, according to a one-page statement released Wednesday by the Los Angeles County coroner's office. A final autopsy report is expected to be released Friday. Hernandez became the first TSA officer killed in the line of duty when a gunman opened fire at the airport the morning of Nov. 1. Three others were wounded before the suspect - identified as Paul Anthony Ciancia, 23 - was shot in a gun battle with airport police and taken into custody.

A “person of interest” has been identified in the fatal stabbing of a 22-year-old woman inside her mother's apartment in Hawthorne, Los Angeles County sheriff's officials said Friday. About 7:30 p.m. Thursday, the mother of Naquia Catching walked into the apartment in the 4800 block of West 118th Street and found Catching dead, said Lt. Eddie Hernandez with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Catching lived at the apartment with her mother, her mother's estranged boyfriend and their 9-year-old daughter, Hernandez said.

A Transportation Security Administration officer killed at Los Angeles International Airport during a rampage three weeks ago was shot 12 times, with bullets piercing organs, grazing his heart and severing a major artery, according to a final autopsy report released Friday. Gerardo I. Hernandez, 39, died within two to five minutes of the attack inside Terminal 3. The gunman, identified by authorities as Paul Anthony Ciancia, 23, targeted TSA agents during the Nov. 1 shooting, the Los Angeles County coroner's office said this week.

A 77-year-old Lake Forest man, who has Alzheimer's disease, was found in a ravine in the heart of the Santa Cruz Mountains Friday, two days after he drove away from a gas station, leaving his wife stranded, police said Sunday. Bernard L. Smith and his wife and another couple were on a day trip Wednesday when they stopped at a Pomona gas station, said Pomona Police Sgt. Louie Hernandez. When his wife got out of the car, Smith drove off, Hernandez said. The other couple jumped out of the car.

Jailed former NFL star Aaron Hernandez has been confined to isolation for 30 days after his physical altercation with another inmate at the Bristol County House of Correction in Dartmouth, Mass., according to NECN. The onetime New England Patriots tight end will reportedly spend 23 hours a day in his cell and eat his meals there. When he leaves, he has to wear handcuffs with a waist chain and leg irons. Hernandez and another inmate, whose name has not been released, got into a fight Tuesday in a common area outside of Hernandez's former cell, officials said.

Jailed former NFL star Aaron Hernandez was involved in a fight with another inmate, officials said. The incident reportedly happened in a common area at the Bristol County House of Correction in Dartmouth, Mass, where the onetime New England Patriots tight end is being held without bail after pleading not guilty to a murder charge in the death of 27-year-old Odin Lloyd. Hernandez, who is kept alone in a cell, and the other inmate were apparently involved in an altercation despite the fact that only one prisoner is supposed to be in that area at a time, officials said.

Francisco Hernandez was a fiercely independent man, refusing help from family and neighbors - even firing Meals on Wheels - as he moved into old age at his Mount Washington home. So it's not surprising that the 89-year-old World War II Purple Heart recipient was home alone with his bulldog, Nero, when a fire late Friday tore through the tiny cottage he lived in for the last 40 years. Hernandez's body was found Saturday among the charred remains of the structure that sits on a winding, narrow street in the 500 block of West Avenue 44. His dog survived the fire.

SACRAMENTO -- The state's ethics agency is investigating whether political funds that went to the 2010 campaign of Assemblyman Roger Hernandez (D-West Covina) were laundered to disguise their true source, according to court documents filed this week. The state Fair Political Practices Commission said in court papers it is seeking bank records from Aldo A. Flores, an attorney who has represented Hernandez, as it looks at $3,900 provided by Flores' law firm to Hernandez's campaign in 2009.

TUCSON - He held her in an upright position against his chest to keep her from drowning in her own blood and applied pressure to her head wound. It was then that Daniel Hernandez Jr. remembered a television show he watched when he was 10 years old. It was about brain injuries and he knew he had to keep Rep. Gabrielle Giffords engaged. He kept asking her questions, such as whether she knew she'd been shot. She'd reply with a squeeze of the hand, move two fingers or give a thumbs up. His actions on Jan. 8, 2011, helped save Giffords' life and thrust Hernandez, then a 20-year-old intern for the Arizona Democrat, into the national limelight.

A judge might impose a formal gag order in the murder case against former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez after his attorneys accused the state of allowing leaks they contend could jeopardize his right to a fair trial. At a hearing in Fall River (Mass.) Superior Court on Monday, defense attorney Michael Fee blamed prosecutors for out-of-court statements reported in the media that he says have tarnished the ex-player. "Mr. Hernandez is entitled to a fair trial," Fee told Judge Susan Garsh during the hourlong proceeding.

Why can't television newscasters and commentators at sports events, especially baseball games, learn to pronounce the names of Spanish-speaking persons correctly? Perhaps some of them learned in high school Spanish that words ending in "z" are accented on the last syllable; and since the printing of Spanish names in our newspapers is lacking in accent signs, they don't realize that most Spanish names ending in "ez" have an accent on other than the last syllable. For example, if they care and are sensitive enough, they would not pronounce: 1. Juarez as "WarEZ", but almost correctly as "WARez."

This post has been updated below. The Transportation Security Administration agent who was killed at Los Angeles International Airport died within two to five minutes of being shot, coroner's officials said. He was shot multiple times, according to a one-page statement released Wednesday by the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office. A final autospy report is expected to be released Friday. Gerardo I. Hernandez, a 39-year-old father of two, became the first TSA officer killed in the line of duty when a gunman opened fire at the airport the morning of Nov. 1. Three others were wounded before the suspect -- identified as Paul Anthony Ciancia, 23 -- was shot in a gun battle with airport police and taken into custody.

Cpl. Rudy Hernandez, a son of California migrant workers who fought in the Korean War and was awarded the Medal of Honor in 1952, died Saturday at Womack Army Medical Center in Fayetteville, N.C.. He was 82 and had been diagnosed recently with cancer and other ailments. Hernandez, a fixture at Fayetteville veterans events, was grand marshal of the city's Veterans Day Parade last month. In August, Fort Bragg's Warrior Transition Battalion Complex was rededicated in his name. It was just after 2 a.m. on May 31, 1951, when Cpl. Hernandez felt the warm trickle of blood from a shrapnel wound on his head.

There are certain things art-comics creators are generally expected to do: Find a tone and stick to it, concentrate their efforts on one major work every few years, stay away from the trappings of genre fiction unless they're putting them in ironic quotation marks. Gilbert Hernandez, blessedly, has no interest in those sorts of expectations. In the early '80s, when he and his brothers were Southern California punks, they launched the long-running comic book "Love and Rockets" - a series that initially seemed extraordinary for not being genre fiction at least as much as it did for the startling originality of Los Bros Hernandez's visual and narrative styles.